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Riptide's As You Wish, known as Wesley, is a 2020 gelding. He's by Surfer's Riptide and out of the late Thetis. Thanks to Lori for his test results and this picture! His test results weren't a surprise, but it's always great to see results. Wesley genetic makeup: e/e, a/a, nd1/nd1, SW1/n. Wesley is a chestnut which was the only color he could be since both of his parents are chestnut. Two chestnuts can't have anything but a chestnut. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html He tested as a/a which means he doesn't have the bay causing agouti. Agouti doesn't visually show up on a chestnut because it only affects black. I'm pretty positive his sire is a/a too based on test results like this and his offspring. Wesley has two copies of the primitive marking causing nd1. Primitive markings are like dorsal stripes and leg barring. His sire has a pretty obvious dorsal stripe (likely enhanced by sooty) so not surprised by this test result. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings.html Both of his parents have Splashed White 1 as proven by their offspring. One of Wesley's 3/4 siblings Surfer's Rouge Wave is a homozygous "classic" splash. Wesley's test showed he has one copy of SW1/n. His white markings are pretty typical for heterozygous SW1. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/splash.html Wesley is a flaxen chestnut like his sire and his sire's family. We know flaxen is genetic in some way but it hasn't been figured out yet. I definitely think it will be in the near future. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/flaxen.html He has some birdcatcher spots and his dam did too. They were extensive on her face. The spots themselves aren't genetic but the reaction that causes them is. They are the result of an autoimmune response, often from bug bites. So Wesley inherited the autoimmune reaction from his dam. Birdcatcher spots can appear and disappear while others show up and stay throughout a pony's life. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/birdcatcher.html 
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Tuney, sometimes spelled Tunie, is one of the elder mares in the current herd having been born in 2003. I took a couple of foal photos of her and didn't realize it until years later! She had the nickname Queenie before her name was known because she was Queen Neptune. Her sire was the chestnut tobiano Willie's Majestic Dreamer, she was the only one of his foals kept for the herd. Tuney looks a lot like her brown tobiano dam Seaside. She has had two foals kept for the herd, Don Leonard Stud II and JAZ Willa's Mirackle. She's a dark bay or brown. Browns are so far genetically the same as bays, however in other breeds it's different so we'll have to see what research shows in the future. Tuney only has one copy of agouti because she produced one black foal. Interestingly her son Don Leonard Stud II does appear to be homozygous for agouti because he's never sired a black foal out of dozens of offspring. The first photo is her in her summer coat and the second is in her winter coat, the color shade of her coat changes with the seasons. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/brown.html Tuney carries recessive chestnut from her chestnut sire. She's also produced a few chestnuts, including her stallion son Don Leonard Stud II. A pony can only be chestnut if both parents either are chestnut or carry it recessively. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html She's an excellent example of a tobiano pinto. Tuney's produced several solid colored foals so that tells us she carries one copy of her pinto pattern. Both of her parents were tobiano but only one of them passed tobiano on to her. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html Tuney's likely genetic makeup is E/e, A/a, TO/n.   Midweek history tidbit! An August 1944 sale ad from the Orange County Review. For a "spotted" Chincoteague Pony, presumably a pinto. The pony is advertised as gaited. Chincoteagues aren't gaited these days, however some have been found to have a copy or two of the gaited gene DMRT3.  LZS Mark's Island Liberty was born in 2002 and died in 2010. She's only one of two foals of the buckskin half Arabian Copper Moose kept for the herd. Her dam was the bay tobiano Carol's Little Freedom. Liberty only had three foals but left a long legacy on the island through her first foal 15 Friends of Freckles who currently has 4 daughters living on Assateague. Liberty was a bay like her dam. And her sire was a bay with the cream dilution. All three of her foals were also bay and sired by the chestnut North Star. It's not enough foals to know for sure, but it's possible she was homozygous for black and/or for agouti. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html She was a tobiano pinto like her dam. Even though her foals were all tobiano she couldn't be homozygous for tobiano because her sire was solid. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html Liberty likely had splashed white pinto or another pinto pattern. She doesn't really look like she does, but her dam Carol's Little Freedom and her daughter 15 Freckles each had a blue eye. We don't have any testing data on the family to find out what is causing the occasional blue eyes. Splashed white and other pinto patterns are dominant, they can't skip generations. Sometimes you can't really see or tell that a pinto pattern is there, but when it comes to inheritance it's still dominant. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/splash.html She had some tobiano roaning, mostly in her interesting roaned star. This is likely from tobiano as they often have roaning. Tobiano and roans (that are testable) have been found on the same gene, KIT. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/roaning.html   A different type of tested pony this week! One of the most challenging things about trying to identify a Chincoteague Pony or connect a Chincoteague to its heritage are the solid colored ponies. If there isn't documentation on the pony it's nearly impossible to identify them if they don't have any identifying markings. Twix or Treat is a solid bay gelding born in 2011. Family DNA testing with Etalon Equine Genetics was able to verify he is a Chincoteague Pony and who his likely sire is. The family testing has been used in other ways in Chincoteagues but this is the first time it's verified a Chincoteague Pony! Looking at "Horses Like Me" in the first photo you can see that all of them are Chincoteagues. This shows ponies that have a similar breeding or a similar genetic composition to him, not necessarily related. The second photo shows his relatives. 1st degree relatives are parents or offspring so he has none. 2nd degree are siblings and the two Tornado's Legacy offspring in Etalon's database are listed. That strongly indicates that Twix is by Tornado's Legacy. It seems that Twix is Legacy's first foal as he was a bachelor in 2010. Three more Tornado relatives appear in the 3rd degree relatives. He's definitely a Tornado descendant! The testing didn't indicate Twix's dam, however foal records show that he may be out of Galadriel. Hopefully with more tested ponies providing genetic data more ponies like Twix can be connected to their ancestry! Twix is now a registered Chincoteague Pony with the International Chincoteague Pony Association & Registry.   Jessica's Sea Star Sandy is a buckskin mare born in 2006. Her sire was the buckskin tobiano Tornado and her dam the chestnut Philly Girl. She's had four daughters kept for the herd: Lorna Dune, Sunrise Ocean Tides, Ivana Marie Zustan, and Carolynn's Ripple Effect. Her full sister Landrie's Georgia Peach was also kept for the herd. The late WH Sundance was her niece, the daughter of another full sister. My friend Debbie Elliot-Fisk is her buyback donor. Jessica's Sandy is a buckskin which means she is a bay with one copy of the cream dilution. She inherited both from her buckskin sire. She often has white hairs mixed into her black mane. These white hairs often happen on buckskins and is called frosting. You can really see it in my photo of her in her winter coat. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/buckskin.html Her dam is a chestnut so that means she inherited one copy of red and carries it recessively. Her two palomino foals (including Lorna Dune) and one chestnut also shows she carries chestnut. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html Since Jessica's Sandy is a buckskin she has at least one copy of agouti since agouti creates a bay. She likely has two copies of agouti since she hasn't produced a black foal. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Jessica's Sandy's sire Tornado was a tobiano pinto but she didn't inherit it. She doesn't have any visible white.   |
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